Skills 3-year Zero Value Contracts

Contracts

• Skills 3-year Zero Value Contracts · Leeds Beckett University, Leeds City College, THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

  Signed

  20 Dec 2022

  Value

  £25,000,000

  Status

  active

  • Change The Council has created an additional two categories for the Employment and Skills DPS. These two new categories are: 1. Communities and Place This category applies to increasing engagement to increase community involvement and cohesion. It also applies to building resilient, healthy and safe neighbourhoods. This will predominantly involve revenue related activities with a small amount of capital. Examples include but not limited to: • Delivering community led projects to address needs identified by communities • Improving community infrastructure such as digital inclusion and volunteering • Improving local green space for communities to enjoy • Enhancing physical, cultural and social ties at a neighbourhood level • Delivering activities for crime prevention • Improving the built and natural environment in specific neighbourhoods • Improving community engagement and involvement to help improve local neighbourhoods • Provision of advice services such as money and budgeting services and debt advice 2. Business Innovation and Growth Sectors This category applies to creating jobs and boosting community cohesion, promoting networking and collaboration, and increasing private sector investment in growth enhancing activities. The category will also involve exploiting opportunities in growth sectors. This will predominantly involve revenue related activities with a small amount of capital. Examples include but not limited to: • Start up business support • Improvements to local retail, hospitality, and leisure sector activities • Bringing together businesses within and across sectors to share knowledge, expertise, and resources • Activities to stimulate innovation and growth • SME support got new-to-firm innovation • Adopt productivity-enhancing, energy efficient and low carbon technologies and techniques In order to apply to join the Employment and Skills Dynamic Purchasing System, interested organisations will need to register for a login to YORtender to submit an application to become a pre-approved partner. The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://yortender.eu-supply.com/ If you are interested in submitting an application to become a delivery partner, please go to YORtender (https://yortender.eu-supply.com/). The procurement documents have been amended and republished to include the new categories. All further competitions under the Employment and Skills Dynamic Purchasing System will take place on via https://yortender.eu-supply.com/ as of 1 January 2023, therefore existing delivery partners will need to ensure they are registered on the new categories portal in order to receive invitations to further competitions under these categories. Contract Award Notices are published every quarter in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. These Contract Award Notices detail the awarded delivery partners for each call-off under the DPS., Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: The Council has identified the need for two new categories which was not foreseen at the commencement of the Dynamic Purchasing System, due to Brexit and subsequent emergence of new UK funding streams. All other terms of the DPS remain the same.

Dispute resolution & review bodies

• The High Court of JusticeReview body London